Group (n) | Before treatment | The fourth week | The eighth week | The twelfth week | Ftime | ptime | Fbetween-group | pbetween-group | Ftime*between-group | ptime*between-group |
The experiment group (31) | 55.69 (5.82) | 51.06 (13.37) | 43.48 (5.27) | 44.90 (7.05) | 42.18 | <0.001 | 0.86 | 0.36 | 1.04 | 0.35 |
The control group (32) | 55.91 (5.73) | 52.59 (9.73) | 43.75 (5.77) | 43.41 (5.82) |
Repeated ANOVA measures were used to compare the SAS Scores between the experiment group and the control group across the time line. In addition, contrast analysis was used to compare SAS Scores of the two groups between the fourth week and baseline (Ftimexgroup=5.47, p=0.023), the eighth week and baseline (Ftimexgroup=259.25, p<0.001), and the twelfth week and baseline (Ftimexgroup=118.70, p<0.001).
ANOVA, analysis of variance.